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Growing up on the Illinois Prairie during the Great Depression and the Coal Mine Wars: A Portrayal of the Way Life Was

Mary Barford
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 117–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.1.117
Published: 01 January 2009
...Mary Barford Growing up on the Illinois Prairie during the Great Depression and the Coal Mine Wars: A Portrayal of the Way Life Was . Earl R. Hutchison . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 BookReviews The Ogallala Aquifer was not originally a feature of the Great...
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Feeding the Aversion: Agriculture and Mining Technology on Angola’s Colonial-Era Diamond Mines, 1917–1975

Todd Cleveland
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 328–350.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.3.328
Published: 01 July 2018
...Todd Cleveland Abstract This paper examines how a series of agricultural initiatives forestalled mechanization on the mines of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) by facilitating the expansion of the company’s African labor force. Unlike other regional mining companies, from its...
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To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia

Robert Weise
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 118–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.118
Published: 01 January 2006
...Robert Weise To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia . Chad Montrie . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 118 / Agricultural History Wittliff arranges the photographs of this personal homage to those who provided him with what...
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“Quite an Experiment”: A Mining Company’s Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1895–1915

Terry S. Reynolds
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 64–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.64
Published: 01 January 2006
...Terry S. Reynolds Abstract Between 1895 and 1915 Cleveland-Cliffs, one of America’s leading iron mining companies, became deeply involved in promoting agricultural development on Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula. Its two-decade-long attempt to identify appropriate plants and farming practices...
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“A Golden Harvest”: Gold Mining and Agricultural Reform in North Carolina, 1799–1842

Jason Hauser
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 469–487.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.4.469
Published: 01 October 2017
...Jason Hauser Abstract The 1799 discovery of gold in the North Carolina piedmont began a decades-long conversation about the desirability of mining in the region. Within the pages of local and national periodicals, a debate unfolded that pivoted around issues central not to mining...
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Lead in the Water: Power, Progressivism, and Resource Control in a Missouri Mining Community

Bob Faust
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 405–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.2.405
Published: 01 April 2002
...: Growth from the Surface Diggings to Major Operation Effected by Diamond Drilling," Mining and Metallurgy28 (December1948): 367 . 10 "Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Directors," 3 June 1913, collection 48, Bonne Terre Farming and Cattle Company, WHMC-Rolla. 11 "Flat River Incorporation...
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A Pattern for Improvement: Pattern Farms and Scientific Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century America

Timothy K. Minella
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 434–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.4.414
Published: 01 October 2016
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The Global Transformation of Time, 1870–1950

Timothy K. Minella
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 125–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.1.125
Published: 01 January 2017
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Roundup from the Ground Up: A Supply–Side Story of the World’s Most Widely Used Herbicide

Bartow J. Elmore
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 102–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.1.102
Published: 01 January 2019
...Bartow J. Elmore Abstract Digging deep into the history of phosphate mining, this article engages contemporary debates about the environmental sustainability of using Roundup to produce our food by focusing on the front end rather than the back end of the product’s life cycle. Though many people...
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Cowboy and Indian Alliances in the Northern Plains

Zoltán Grossman
Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 355–389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-77.2.355
Published: 01 April 2003
... environment from large-scale development. Since the 1980s, they developed a series of interethnic environmental alliances that successfully opposed coal and uranium mines, bombing ranges, and other "outside" threats to their lands and cultures. A common defense of the local place provided a path out...
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Natural Partners: Chilean Nitrates and the Rise of Intensive Agriculture in the US South, 1900–1945

Joshua Frens-String
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10154307
Published: 01 February 2023
...Joshua Frens-String Abstract This article examines how Chilean nitrate fertilizer producers and their international marketing agents persuaded farmers in the US South to use nitrogen-rich mineral fertilizers mined from the Atacama Desert, even as cheaper synthetic fertilizers flooded agricultural...
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Farm Crisis and Rural Revitalization in South-Central New York during the Early Twentieth Century

GREY OSTERUD
Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 141–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.2.141
Published: 01 April 2010
... revitalization that lay in new connections between the countryside and the city. In the early twentieth century, as long-settled families departed for urban employment, European immigrant families escaping the mines and mills bought abandoned farms. Motorized transport enabled farming families to send household...
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Water in Print: Nature and Artifice

Jen Huntley-Smith
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 354–363.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.2.354
Published: 01 April 2002
... arrival in the California gold fields in Oc? tober 1849, Hutchings began publishing his impressions of California in let? ters to New Orleans newspapers. While mining, ranching, and attempting to speculate in San Francisco real estate, Hutchings continued to write occasionally for California papers...
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Spearfish: The Environmental Margins of a Northern Great Plains Apple District, 1882–1914

John Henris
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 205–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.2.205
Published: 01 April 2020
..., and the cause of it all was apples. Encumbered with one hundred twenty boxes of early winter apples, consigned to the Hearst Mercantile Store of the Homestake Mining Company, the fruit came by rail from the neighboring Spearfish Valley, a diminutive 5.5 square mile irrigated agricultural district...
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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush

Graeme Wynn
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 243–246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.2.243
Published: 01 April 2005
... of placer gold mining in the nineteenth century. Her work turns around the distinction between nature and culture drawn by contemporaries and of considerable interest, as a category for analysis, among scholars whose work has been inflected by the per- Book Reviews / 245 spectives of critical social theory...
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The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology

Nicholas Buchanan
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 118–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.1.118
Published: 01 January 2009
... of two infamousmine disasters in Illinois, theCardiffMine Disaster of 1903 and theCherryMine Disaster of 1909.Appen dix B includes a first-personaccount byThomas White describing the eight days he was trapped in the burning Cherry Mine, a disaster that eventually consu med the lives of 259 men...
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Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains

John Opie
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 115–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.1.115
Published: 01 January 2009
... not support the human apparatus of agriculture. JohnOpie UniversitoyfChicago Growingup on theIllinoisPrairieduringtheGreatDepression and the Coal MineWars:A Portrayaol f thWe ay LifeWas. By Earl R. Hutchison. Lewiston,NY: EdwinMellen Press,Ltd.,2006.280pp109.95,paperback, ISBN 978-0-7734-6004-1. Coal mining...
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Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters

Bode Morin
Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 122–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2012.86.1.122
Published: 01 January 2012
..., 2011. 344 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3459-6. Historian and attorney Duncan Maysilles has written a compelling legal history of the thirty-year battle between agricultural interests in 122 2012 Book Reviews northwest Georgia and copper-mining companies in southeast Tennessee. Ducktown mining...
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Golden Horizons: Expansion of the Wheat-Growing Industry in the Colony of Victoria in the 1850s

Dmytro Ostapenko
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (1): 35–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.1.35
Published: 01 January 2013
..., 2012); Geoffrey Blainey , The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining , 5 th ed. ( Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 2003 ), 60 – 62 . 3. Rodney Maddock and Ian McLean , “Supply-Side Shocks: The Case of Australian Gold,” Journal of Economic History 44...
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The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857–1942

Roger Thompson
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 283–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.2.283
Published: 01 April 2007
..., but also how it was connected to local power and local myths. This is social history of the highest caliber, based upon primary sources, secondary literature, and oral histories. Harrison applies a similar methodology to her study of Liu's role in Shanxi's important coal-mining industry and helps us better...
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